Medical Imaging Solution Brief

Medical Imaging Solution Brief

Posted Tony Greyon March 31, 2017

Medical imaging files can be huge and quickly overwhelm many types of file storage. On-premise filers and NAS devices can act as a high-performance image repository, but they are also expensive, require significant management and are limited in their ability to scale. Cloud storage can offer the needed scalability to handle the influx of medical images but at the cost of performance. Latency between the cloud storage and the healthcare provider, particularly with large image files, can cause unacceptable delays in opening in files and seriously impact patient care.